Timeshifter Jet Lag

Timeshifter Inc.

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About this app

Create highly personalized jet lag plans based on your chronotype, sleep pattern, itinerary, and personal preferences.

// Condé Nast Traveler: “Say goodbye to jet lag”
// The Wall Street Journal: "Indispensable"
// Travel + Leisure: “Game-changer”
// New York Times: “The travel industry’s new fix for jet lag”
// CNBC: "Saves time and money"
// WIRED: "Will help reset your [circadian] clock”
// Lonely Planet: "Incredible"
// Prevention: “One of the best apps according to doctors”

Travelers are constantly bombarded with misguided anecdotal advice from non-experts on how to alleviate jet lag. It's time to replace the myths with tested and validated circadian science.

Timeshifter is the leader in circadian technology, uniquely offering the only scientifically-validated advice proven to quickly adjust you to new time zones and alleviate jet lag symptoms.

In your brain, you have a 24-hour circadian clock that regulates nearly all of your biological functions. Jet lag is caused when your sleep/wake and light/dark cycle shift too quickly for your circadian clock to keep up. The only way to reduce jet lag quickly is by shifting your circadian clock to the new time zone.

Light is the most important time cue for “shifting” your circadian clock. Light exposure and avoidance, at the right time, will significantly accelerate your adaptation. Seeing or avoiding light at the wrong time — as often recommended by non-experts — will shift your circadian clock the wrong way – away from your new time zone – making your jet lag worse.

Timeshifter helps you eliminate jet lag by addressing the underlying cause – the disruption of your circadian clock – as well as alleviate the disruptive symptoms, such as insomnia, sleepiness and digestive discomfort.

All the features you need:

Circadian Time™:
Advice is based on your body’s clock

Practicality Filter™:
Adjusts advice to the "real world"

Quick Turnaround®:
Automatically detects short trips

Pre-travel advice:
Start adjusting before departure

Push notifications:
View advice without opening the app

Timeshifter’s benefits are well established. Based on ~130,000 post-flight surveys, 96.4% of the travelers who followed Timeshifter's advice did not struggle with severe or very severe jet lag. When NOT following the advice, there was a 6.2x increase in severe or very severe jet lag, and a 14.1x increase in very severe jet lag.

Your first plan is free. After your free plan, purchase individual plans as-you-go or subscribe for unlimited plans. Timeshifter is a paid service.

These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Timeshifter is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease, and is intended for healthy adults, 18 years of age or older. The Timeshifter app is not intended for pilots and flight crew on duty.

Ratings and reviews

Highly recommend this app for travel across time zones. I used this for multiple trips, California to Asia and to Europe, and even when I've only been able to semi-follow the plans set up by the app, it's enough! The app has been super helpful in letting me know when to sleep and when to stay awake on flights, with a focus on when to get more or less light exposure- all leading to minimal jet lag wherever I'm going!

A Mayo Clinic Newsletter recommended the Timeshifter app for international travel. I'm so happy I found this one week before our trip to Europe! The app was very easy to use and the timing instructions linked directly with our flight times. We followed all guidance very closely, especially the light-specific ones. I even wore sunglasses when light was to be low (including in the house and on the plane). We arrived in Amsterdam with very insignificant jet lag, as in virtually none!

I have used the app for a couple of international trips. The advise seems to help with jet lag but the notification from the app didn't work on my Samsung phone or tablet. I contacted support a few months ago about this. They said it was a known issue and they were working on it but still no update. This makes it so you have to memorize when you need to transition to sleep, stop drinking caffeine etc. Not very user friendly.

What's new

We release updates regularly, and we're always looking for ways to make the experience better.
Let's dive into the enhancements you'll find in our latest update:

## Fixed
- Edit flight times bug
- Notification issue on some Android phone models
- Small bug fixes

If you have any feedback, or run into issues, please use the live chat in the app. We love to talk.